I have been a long time user of the Sonicare toothbrush. I just happened to stumble across a giveaway for a Sonicare Kids Toothbrush. Heh, I didn’t even know Sonicare made such a thing. Sounds like a good Christmas present for my 3 kids. Click here to enter.

In a word, yes. It is that good. We have been members of Stompernet before it was called Stompernet. Since we have been members of this group our income has increased at least 5-fold. We are not talking small numbers here, we are talking in the millions since we began our partnership with Stompernet.

Today, September 9th, 2009, the prices change, the number and quality of the tools change and new staff members will be announced soon. If you are serious about making money on the Internet, today is your day. The price is sweet and the product package is even sweeter. You future has changed today, Join now!

I have been using Mozy.com for online backup of two desktop machines in our office about 7 months now without any significant problems. I have been very satisfied with the price and performance of this solution until last weekend.

On Saturday morning I was trying to perform a small bit of maintenance on one of our websites from home. After determining I needed a file from my office machine to complete the work, I tried to perform a “web restore” from my Mozy.com backup. After logging into my Mozy account, I found and selected the file (a single 30k file) I needed to restore and submitted the job. I figured it may take several minutes until the restore was ready, even 30 minutes wouldn’t be a big deal. So I waited…and waited…and waited. After 45 minutes of waiting I ran out of things to do on the website and threw in the towel.

Several hours later I checked my Mozy.com account. Still waiting… A few hours later I checked again, no dice. At this point I decided to send Mozy support an email. And still I waited.

At 8:22am on Sunday, about 22 hours after I submitted my file restore, I received an email from Mozy indicating my restore request was complete. Great!…but it was easier and much faster for me to go to the office, get the file and put in on the website. For fun I retrieved the “restored” file and opened it successfully. Happily it was the right file.

At 9:26pm on Sunday I received a response from Mozy support explaining why my file restore did not happen quickly. I have reproduced it below.

“Web Restores are done on a first come, first serve basis. Restore build time depends on how many people have requested restores before you. Sometimes they will build quickly, but others it may take quite a bit of time. We ask that you please be patient while the restores build. I can see that the restore finished today. This delay happens when there is a large volume of restores pending.”

This may or may not be an truthful explanation of the situation regarding my restore request. In a previous life, I was in enterprise storage administration and know this stuff should never take this long.

Possibly Mozy does not have sufficient infrastructure to deal with the number of restore requests they receive, I will never know. What I do know is that I will now be giving Carbonite online backup a try. Their price is very similar to Mozy.com and the performance of their restore service can hardly be worse. I am certainly glad this wakeup call happened now rather than when I really needed them to perform.

If you have any experience, good or bad, with Mozy.com or any other online backup provider, I would love to hear about it.

“Stomping The Search Engines v.2″ will be available today at 1500 EDT. New start time is 1630ish EDT. (StomperNet folks having trouble getting enough load balanced machines from their host) This follow-on to the seminal “Stomping The Search Engines” is the best organic SEO instruction available today. Get it while you can. Oh, and you can’t beat the price, it’s FREE (do hackers and crackers spell it phree?)

Just came across a very, very interesting blog post that everyone using Chrome should know about. In part, Google’s Content License in Chrome states, in part,

“By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.”

So finally the long rumoured Google Browser is going to show tomorrow. After reading through the details of the product, it looks like it may be very good. Of course, how much behaviour information it pushes back to homebase will be a concern. Also, Googles ability to get plug-in developers on-board may be the key to widespread adoption.

Today is the official release day for FireFox 3. At the SpreadFireFox website, they have a big spread about breaking a world record for downloads. Too bad when you click thru to download the new version they are still presenting a link to download version 2.x. I was successful in getting version 3 by hand editing the URL. This is the URL I used to grab the new version for Windows.

Almost forgot to mention the websites in question have been up and down for over an hour now. You would expect if they want to set a world record they would make sure they have sufficient backend to cover it.